Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (47)Titchfield
de Rupibus, Peter
de la Roche, Peter
Titchfield Priory
Henry VI
Margaret of Anjou
Wriothesley Family
Titchfield Bay
Titchfield, where in the Beginning of the thirteenth Century, Peter de Rupibus, or De la Roche, a Poictovin, Bishop of this Diocese, founded a Monastery of the Order of Praemonstratenses. Here, according to the Annotations on Mr. Camden, the Marriage between King Henry VI. and Margaret of Anjou, was solemnized, but our Histories place this Marriage elsewhere, as we shall hereafter shew.
Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Secretary of State to King Henry VIII. was made by that King, Lord Wriothesley of Titchfield, which Barony descended to his Successors the Earls of Southampton, who made it their chief Seat; but Thomas the last Earl dying without Issue male, the Lord Russell married one of his Daughters and Coheiresses, as is above related, and Edmund Earl of Gainsborough the other, by whom he had this Lordship; but this Earl dying also without Issue male, this Manor is faln to his two Daughters, who are married to the Lord Woodstock and the Duke of Beaufort. The Sea on this Shore is called Titchfield Bay. Near this Place is
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